One thing we can do is to understand denial is a normal human defense mechanism. Better to avoid triggering denial by not making people afraid of the future. And when denial exists in a person already, best to avoid arguing with or labeling that person and getting them more deeply invested in their denial. Yet, too often we’ve: overwhelmed people with fear, argued with them when they tended towards normal defense mechanisms to cope with that fear, and then labeled people so their initial reaction of denial becomes a permanent part of their identity. Amazingly that isn’t saving the planet too quickly.
The trend I’ve noticed is towards emailed receipts which are not very consumer friendly. It seems like a better option is just taking a snapshot of the receipt on your cell phone. I’d appreciate having that option. A retailer could show the receipt on a tablet and I could take a quick snapshot. Win-win.
I am thinking about work from home recently. The shift to work from home only happened because of the pandemic, but it could have happened years earlier. Telecommuting was a thing since the early 2000’s, but widespread adoption of work from home policy lagged due to various frictions and the inertia of the past. I think ai adoption will be the same, a step function where there’s nothing, nothing but then all at once the major shift comes.
“flower that was grown, dried and packaged with no other modification”
Who determines what is acceptable for that and who does the testing and how? Like, can they spray with neem oil to counter pests and it’s still organic “pure pot” but you would be smoking traces of neem oil? I find the concept of “pure pot” somewhat dubious. Isn’t hash more pure?
Wild salmon have their characteristic color because they are eating organisms that contain the naturally occurring Astaxanthin. Farmed salmon subsist on grains, fish oils, etc and come out looking grey unless pigments are added to their feed.
interesting, the Salmon I have caught has not been as colorful- I mostly fish in the rivers though
edit: it looks like that vid had some steelhead (trout) mixed in? This is more like what I have seen, but the color is even more "dulled" in person https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e09UmeqAd4g
It is interesting we now call this stuff “conspiracy theories.” We used to talk of “snake oil” or people would make jokes about yoga and health food in the 70s. Currently it’s taken on a newspeaky sort of political flavor with the phrase “conspiracy theory.” In the 90s it was “alternative health” or “eastern medicine.” Interesting how views changed on ways of knowing/cultural relativism in such a short period of time.
The way loosely-defined "we" call(ed) things in different periods of time isn't a good basis for conclusions, especially in topics in which there was basically no good science 50 years ago.
We agree it’s not a constant “we.” And also a lot of the current usage is secondary to pandemic politics where certain demographics and career slots benefitted or alternatively were hurt by covid related policies. My conclusion is only that language and culture change and influence one another.
The gop is controlled by donors who are mostly free market liberals. Elon won’t let anyone “censor” (regulate) x. The democrats don’t care about national security historically, and it’s not currently an issue their cosmopolitan TikTok loving base cares anything, at all, about. “Security” is something that most democrats I talk to now associate with deportation or military spending, both of which they ferociously hate. Across parties, policy and discourse are reactive. Security requires a proactive orientation that it seems the public sector may structurally lack.
Amazed to see such a take after what happened in LA. Obviously the median immigrant has strong feelings of loyalty to their mother soil as can be witnessed by the huge Mexican flags and the direct testimony of many individuals. Should we deport all those people who swear loyalty to “La Rasa”? If we want immigrants, and we should because we need them to lead us into the future, we need to be realistic about their loyalties. People are proud of their race/nationality, and immigrants often even moreso.
The Chicano movement made their own flag back in the Cesar Chavez era. 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Gen Los Angeleños of Mexican origin could have used (and plenty did) and a sign finger portion of protestors made sure to incorporate the US flag as well, but a significant portion simply did not realize that the Mexican flag is not viewed as an ethnic marker outside of CA.
The US State of California WAS Mexico in 1848. Much of California still is Mexico. The personal notion of "mother soil" may have nothing to do with current political boundaries.
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